Northeastern University Students for Immigrant Justice in conjunction with the Center for Global Law & Justice will co-sponsor a university-wide conversation on the human impacts of US immigration policies and where/how the government crosses the line with regard to its legal obligations on behalf of “the world’s most vulnerable people.”

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Join me at this beautiful family-owned independent bookstore in the Heart of the Commonwealth for a reading and Q&A on the human costs of US and global immigration policies and practices.

Everyone is welcome!

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Mallett Art Gallery at Hartford’s Captial Community College presents “A Suspension of Perception,” photographs from CT-based artist Christine Breslin. In her series of large, up close, and personal immigrant portraits, paired with video interviews, Breslin gives viewers a chance to hear stories about journeying to the US from Mexico to South America.

On November 14, I am honored to join Christine to read from Crossing the Line with her beautiful images as a backdrop. A discussion concerning the human costs of US immigration policies and practices will follow, with me and Christine in conversation.

Everyone is welcome!

The UMass @ Amherst Chancellors Office hosts the 5-College Migration Working Group for a facilitated brainstorm and discussion, and I’ve been invited to attend!

It’s going to be a busy day, with a book talk to follow at the Amherst Books. But I’m ready!

I am so thrilled to be invited by Rev. Michael McSherry, Chief Minister, to his faith community at Edwards Church in Northampton. Once upon a time, I lived just blocks from the church and remember it well. It’ll be kind of like a homecoming with my all-time favorite Northampton, MA bookstore, Broadside, at the venue with us.

Come one! Come all!

Join me and other Human Rights Defenders at Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz, NY for a deeply engaging conversation about how we CAN do better. About how we MUST do better when it comes to welcoming and accompanying newcomers to our shores.

Learn about Amnesty’s recently released Blueprint for a Better Border — the perfect follow up to my book!!

Register here.

New Jersey family — You don’t want to miss this!

Sharing the red carpet and stage at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, I will moderate a panel of creators and cast members of Running to Stand still, a new film by Bob Bilheimer and Heidi Ostertag of Worldwide Documentaries, following the East Coast Premiere of the film.

Many on the panel are also featured in Crossing the Line. They will join local heroes from the American Friends Service Committee to discuss one of the most important and misunderstood topics of our time: immigration and the human cost of US policies.

Everyone is Welcome! Registration Requested.

This promises to be a very exciting day, serving many facets of the Grace United Methodist Church community. We’ll start in the afternoon with a presentation about the issues, drawing from the themes of the book. Then, we’ll march — to the steps of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building to demonstrate and advocate for positive change in our immigration system.

We’ll return for a community supper at the Church. And top the day off with a facilitated discussion with the Grace Church Book Club.

Can’t wait!

Can’t wait for this Zoom event with students and faculty of this progressive institution of higher education!

A community of outreach, ministering to the victims of injustice, the many ministries at St. Charles feed and nurture each other as well as the world around us. Whether in celebrating Mass, serving at soup kitchens, comforting the grieving, ministering to the sick, building homes, studying scripture, preparing for the sacraments, forming children and adults in faith, or welcoming the newcomer, all are welcome in the St. Charles Community. Including me!

This evening, we will break bread together, speak of immigration issues together, read fro Crossing the Line, and pray for a more compassionate future for our nation.

I am so grateful to be presenting, learning, and serving by the side of my soul-sister and story collaborator (Chapter 11: Modern Problems, Medieval Solutions), Dora Rodriguez, on behalf of her community at Salvavision. This Tucson, AZ-based non-profit organization provides aid and support to asylum seekers and those who have been deported thanks to the unwavering support of local partners. The Salvasion community provides essential services such as immediate housing, medical care, legal assistance, and more. Their comprehensive approach helps prevent homelessness, facilitates successful community integration, and fosters stability for those in need.

Everything Dora touches turns to gold. I’m grateful to be counted as a member of her vast network of kindness and heartfelt care.

The twin missions are the right to migrate with dignity. The respective actions are humanitarian aid and holistic accompaniment through immersive experiences because education is all about the encounter. The parallel advocacy efforts at the US-Mexico border in favor of policies that advance humane, just, and workable migration in the region. These objectives bridge the goals of the Kino Border Initiative and the Eloy Visitation & Accompaniment program.

Add to that my day with Kino Teens at the Regis High School in New York, and we’re looking at layer upon layer of connection that I cannot wait to tie in a beautiful bow at this fundraiser for the KBI and EVA communities.

Come one. Come all. See you at St Mark’s Church. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

Join me and my hosts of the Eloy Visitation & Accompaniment Program for a day of human connection with peace-seeking people incarcerated in one of the worst ICE prisons — though they are all bad — in the nation with the highest per capita population of people locked up for the non-crime of asking for protection from persecution.

Lisa Kiser, Clinical Associate Professor, Advanced Nursing Practice and Science Division at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, will have me speak to her Health Equity Class, proving that the issue of immigration injustice fans out in connection with myriad other human and social areas.

Community Only.

Can’t wait to meet the good folks of Sierra Vista Arizona for a healthy back and forth on the issues of immigration most affecting them. My host and organizer for this event is the Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center, which advocates for freedom of movement for ALL creatures, not just people. We sometimes forget that in putting up walls against people, animals are also thwarted from migrating to find food, water, mates, family. As a result, our barriers are causing various forms of ecocide as well.

Open to the Public

I’m so excited for this day of learning and networking with the good, powerful folks at Amnesty International. If you’re there, please come introduce yourself!

The Methodist Diakonas of Women in Faith will spend a week with Deaconess Cindy Johnson Andrade at La Posada Providencia to learn about migration and visit organizations that work with people in motion in the Rio Grande Valley. They will be reading Crossing the Line, says Cindy, “as a great insight into the work and understanding of migration in our context.”

We will meet to discuss the book by Zoom to learn from each other. It promises to be a wonderfully international group:

• three diakonas from Brazil

• three from Canada

• three from the Caribbean, and

• two from US

in addition to the staff of La Posada. I wish I could be there with them in San Benito. But Zoom works too!

So excited to be in conversation with Professor of Anthropology and Director for Inter-American Border Studies Josiah Heyman in this campus-wide book presentation at the University of Texas, El Paso. I’m particularly excited to learn from my host and his colleagues, whose scholarship and voices are heard loud and clear in Part III of CROSSING THE LINE!

Registration details to follow.

CALLING ALL SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS — except me as I will not be rapping — but I’m super pysched to be engaging with those who do, and maybe I’ll even give it a try!!

Who knows, spoke word today… TedTalk tomorrow?

Trinity Presbyterian Church in Denton is an eclectic mix of progressive Christians who are welcoming, inclusive, open and diverse.  The community strives to engage in acts of compassion, advocacy and reconciliation, and to heal brokenness affecting individuals, families, and society.  

Trinity welcomes you!  All are welcome!

We’ll be taking a deep dive into more effective messaging around immigration to help these warriors for democracy with their GOTV efforts this fall. Join us!!

Open to the public!

Sponsored by Eagle Dreamers, a youth organization at the University of North Texas whose mission is to provide a supportive environment for our undocumented community at the University, this event is Not To Be Missed!

Open to All! Find us at the Student Union.

Meet us at Tommy’s Hamburger Grill & Patio to talk about all the Good Trouble we’re getting into over immigration.

Open to all!

Members of Arlington Residents for Inclusion invite you to a hosted event dedicated to issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. LOVE!

Sponsored by the Philosophy Club, join this university-wide lecture about immigration issue as presented CROSSING THE LINE.

Open to the public.